Conference Proceedings
Energy consumption in access networks
J Baliga, R Ayre, WV Sorin, K Hinton, RS Tucker
Ofc Nfoec 2008 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference | Published : 2008
Abstract
We present a comparison of energy consumption of access networks. We consider passive optical networks, fiber to the node, point-to-point optical systems and WiMAX. Optical access technologies provide the most energy-efficient solutions. © 2008 Optical Society of America.